Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture

The Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture, also called as “Shevchenkivskiy Hay”, is an open air museum of the Ukrainian wooden architecture and different utilities of the village life. It is situated in Shevchenkivskyi Hai (forest) - one of most picturesque sites of Lviv. Visiting this museum you may enjoy more than 10 thousand of craft-items from various ethnographical regions of Western Ukraine. Everything here is impregnated with the unique atmosphere of picturesque Ukrainian villages. The real treasure of the museum is wooden churches from the Carpathian region - the most exquisite examples of Ukrainian wooden architecture. The oldest wooden constructions represented here are dated by 1749, 1792, 1812, 1860, 1887 years.

The address: 1, Chernecha Hora St., Lviv

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